How China’s Missing Sea Cows Expose an Important Truth About Communism

The dugong, a species of manatee, has gone ‘functionally extinct’ in the waters off the People’s Republic of China.

AP/Linda Lombardi
Serena, a dugong, at an aquarium in Japan in 2012. AP/Linda Lombardi

The dugong, a species of manatee native to Asia and Africa, is now “functionally extinct” in the waters off Communist China, a rebuke of the myth that capitalist nations in general — and America in particular — present a mortal threat to the planet.

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